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the latest news in the week's top stories britain's security social integration and foreign policy under scrutiny following the decapitate of a soldier by muslim extremists in london. the peace and quiet of stockholm is disrupted by seven unprecedented nights of rot sparked by the death of an immigrant . anger a pod tech giant unites two million protesters across the globe with people accusing the corporation of endangering health monopolizing the food market. in the back of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is
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r.t. live in moscow. the u.k. security services are under fire for failing to prevent the brutal daylight murder of a soldier in london on wednesday nine suspects have been arrested so far and at least two of them have been tracked by m i five for years one was allegedly even offered a job by the agency the killing of muslims by british forces overseas was used as justification for the attack but despite fresh fears of homegrown terror you can officials are defending the country's foreign policy is. now reports. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this crease an act seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of willett in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces
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to remain anonymous anger of the moment and i'm. not scared scared. you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the precise attack details the men chanting islam is slogans as the body of soldier drama leverage be a second battalion the royal regiment do you say they only pleading they asked people to be da then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures trying to distance this latest act of violence in the case of recent aid to seize exploits this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what our british
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troops are do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy to cite tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster it has been just not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit say close to home you feel less secure i think that's one ace. you think if we went out there then perhaps
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a bit more space scope for al qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be operate more within the u.k. because when we're out there we're constricted space and not allowing them that freedom and over there and that means their base of operations over here is we can both say the arguments from my youth because we're out there we're inspiring them or motivates in them our presence out there is sort of motivating the cells that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues that deep sense of guilt and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at that brief the attack and they sent him an educated across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. london in the wake of the killing carried out by alleged islamists a series of attacks on muslims and mosques has taken place across britain ultranationalists rallied in clash with police in several cities and
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a number of people have been arrested for racially motivated assault more than one hundred fifty such incidents have been reported in the u.k. since wednesday is killing well earlier this week i discussed the reasons behind the latest violence with in done he's editor of politics talk that you k. and colors cotillion from the right wing british national party. what imma get a should be responsible immigration custody eight do is get those you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you to integrate. all right and they don't want a lawyer to find that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this information i see that now that you know that on so of course the major problem the real id the other scenario a major problem with what he's saying is that his acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p.
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is a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're a fascist party and the acts of violence that they perpetrate against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors political means well i've got to learn from and i have to do something to do with my how to help like others to figure out exactly how they share is done by right wing fanatics and i have to get us all to know the person. the other person who is talking to the signori completely the funked the ali personally have an open dialogue with most in communities that recently i had the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues of religion. for importing. foreigners will tell you about the. issue of these racist you should learn about what are you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i
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don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from east. from we people from from they. let me really judge their members it also implies to me that i went. and some other lunatics who also agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is their mission actually was he is a ruse all right you know yet if you just talk just for matters that it does not just toss you short of the british people died there a poll by what's happened they want to strong response from government they don't want a reaction is going to be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the
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muslim community these are the kind of sensible i don't mean that you take to prevent violence they show us we have a social problem combined with out these us first foreign policy. these with god for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are leaving in isolation cut more links with the outside world than with but if. and when british governments go on their rampage off course they are on green. bay your owing to the lethal. form of m i five agent annie marshawn says there is growing frustration among muslims of a deadly western interventions around the world. individualistic lone wolf style attacks which don't require great planning don't require some for specialist equipment or anything will become perhaps one of the main ways that people make
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protests and it's a horrific attack there is no doubt about it and my heart goes out to the family of the victim but what we're looking at is also an angry voice yelling out from north africa hard in the middle east from central asia from all the people that been victimized by the interventionist policies of the u.s. of the u.k. of nato or france i mean not just iraq and afghanistan but libya in mali and some are in yemen and of course what we're looking at is a whole country that's been decimated now by the cia kill ists which are a presidential proved in the u.s. every week and also trying strikes which are not targeted they take out a whole villages communities and wedding party and so of course it's going to be and meanwhile french police are investigating an apparent copycat of turk in paris on saturday where a soldier was stabbed and nearly killed the suspect reportedly a bearded man of north african origin is on the run with
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a manhunt underway but the french president to stop short of linking the attack to the london murder activists and journalists and says that the violence will be used to demonize muslims draw attention from failed government policies. these type of attacks plays into the strategy of the state to promote a false sense of islam so then is done so what people of the masses around the world can see wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then they use these groups in asia to conduct the stabilisation of the french can go in and pretending to be the neutral arbitrators bringing peace and stability this is a big game or theater smoke and mirrors that really has to be distinctive from from a position that is opposing western hegemony as part of the state strategy is to make sure that everyone is pointing fingers at everyone but the actual arbitrators of the economic crisis of police corruption of unjust and immoral foreign policy
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i.e. those in power in france. seven consecutive days of street violence have shouted stockholm's image as an idyllic scandinavian city despite additional units being sent from sweden's other regions police have not been able to curb the youth riots they first ignited in an immigrant neighborhood last sunday but spread beyond the capital this week all over investigates the call of the unrest. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. speak on the outskirts of stockholm the epicenter of sweden's issue with a race that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become a political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events to make it
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all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being pro sweden for the past week stone throwing and burning become the norm in this part of town known for its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a barrage of emotions it's the state that creates the type of gets wise ation of money so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below average over the almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying a lack of control by government has led to the situation the police can put these right down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes
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defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that it's government policy that must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden. you're watching the weekly here in r t still to come a lot of promises. claims that he is there are limited. by drone program us president obama talks national security leaving experts to wonder whether his new promises will be kept. war without borders rockets fall on parts of lebanon's capital controlled by hezbollah militants they help the syrian government rebels all the details on that for you shortly. a global food giant monsanto's swept across six continents on saturday as two million people marched in protest of the corporations practices demonstrations took place in
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dozens of countries with activists accusing the biotech type of aggressively putting small farmers out of business and planting hazardous genetically modified crops many were angry at the legal protection the firm receives and the number of nations where it can sometimes make up maybe one hundred percent of the food market in santa itself maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources. because it was at one of the protests in new york throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the united states weekend of action against monsanto takes place were in the heart of the protests in the big apple hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its actions the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial its existence for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture
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and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces and also of immense lobbying power is that it has in washington d.c. for one of sleeping in the same bed really with a politician. blocking any kind of legislation that would make life for money have months and to more difficult add up promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own advantage for monetary gain there's a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better than that there may be no way to fully tackle the machine and even vote with monsanto mud santo and the government or one we have a supreme court justice who is a lawyer for the month sent a corporation how much independence do we have really in our government all of these people that have come out onto the streets according to our estimates
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throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend in local marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g m o's and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to understand what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators who say see churkin r.t. new york. it's a website altie don't call me for an extensive report on how the day of action against the by take john reveled across the globe and later this year and all to achieving feature on how even the most traditional foods being genetically modified . some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and
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developed and passed down from generation to. this is a told destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here throughout the whole world now we're either not in the in the world in all the ordinance or. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. that report later that day. more news coming your way after this short break stay with us.
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humans in the world this is why you should care watch only on the dot com. news continues here on r t this is the weekly this past week president obama unveiled a new face to the war on terror was speaking about america's national defense policies he called for more transparency in drone strikes stressing their value in combating insurgents for the first time the knowledge that for american citizens have been killed in counterterrorism drone strikes since two thousand and nine author and activist david swanson believes they only serve to recruit even more terrorists. he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other
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than afghanistan and yet he's not provided publicly any documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if if he would rather have captured our to our locky why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here too for not as criminal and abusive as it appears. and for the second time in five years barack obama promised to shut quantum obey and pledge to lift his own freeze on transferring detainees to yemen and the one hundred of the one hundred sixty six prisoners in the notorious camp of being starving themselves for almost four months in protest against indefinite detention without charge one form
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a guard at the prison says he's going to them experience has left him psychologically scarred some of the some of the tactics i saw practiced in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar carter and a number of other detainees they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program where we would essential to move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big idea was that every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more . probable to give up information during interrogation the only reason the detainees are being force is the u.s. military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the u.s. look bad in the global perspective as it stands right now they have so many
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millions of dollars of taxpayer money in guantanamo but if they just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close that one where the you know. a brief look at some of the stories from around the world the south sixty one people have been arrested for involving clashes at a techno music protest parade in the swiss capital but at least use water cannons and tear gas on the company's hard line is known as the black bloc clashes broke out when the protest is attempted to ten temporary arre cade's component. fifty. thousand people turned out for an anti-gay marriage rally in the french capital demonstrators in paris are angry that the country's new same sex marriage and adoption act came into force a week ago they say president hollande is prioritizing the issue over the economy france is now the ninth country in europe to legalize gay marriage previous game marches have ended in clashes between the far right and police for fears
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of the syrian conflict spilling over borders have been ignited by an attack on the capital of neighboring lebanon several people were injured when two rockets landed in the hezbollah control district to beirut a lebanese militant group's been strongly supporting the embattled syrian government but the rebel syrian army has denied involvement a middle east expert. at least he believes that a splinter group could be to blame. some members of the free syrian army denied it however there was one official who said that hezbollah you know its activity will lead to repercussions that would target by the northern city of tripoli and beirut international airport or not perhaps as an indicator of what some of these armed opposition groups of these syrian opposition groups are indeed involved in what happened today you have to remember that the free syrian army years and the one bloc so if one spokesman denies that it might very well be that another opposition
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are opposition group which also use of title the free syrian army could have been involved in one of the rockets landed near a church and it lies on the border between the southern beirut and the christian district so obviously this is not an attack on our. institution it's a clearly an act of terrorism against innocent civilians on anything and habited area and so i think it just goes to show you the nature of these groups who we are dealing with. to. find out how moscow's decided to play it safe when it comes to defense sales to syria holding a deal to sell advanced missiles worth up to a billion dollars to damascus for fear they could fall into the wrong hands. and also love them and what it takes to win a scholarship in the late british school of teenagers is to pretend to be the prime minister and justify the army shooting and killing twenty five protesters.
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their stories and plenty of other features that r.t. dot com where we continue our in-depth look at genetically modified foods in just a couple of minutes and i'll be back with a news team with more news for you in thirty five minutes from now. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true
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until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and their people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better bulgaria's chances believe me but that's just my opinion.
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too a lot of the crops to drink. eighty five percent of all the jim crow are so the herbicide that it's not to die for. so so brady. is designed not to done from. genetic engineering is on the coat tail of conventional and culture that is characterized by the proliferation of agro chemicals fertilizers pesticides herbicides fungicides all of these chemicals . costs in on energy production they have cost in environmental cleanup this is self-propagating genetic pollution we have no
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technology today to fully clean up the damage people maybe we will in the future. but we're not feeding the products of a good food science to the entire market wasted and release even to the environment where they can never be recall. any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki genetically engineered foods go through a rigorous review before they are approved the review includes analysis of the trams sharing plant versus its parent and there's a standard that you have to meet called substantial equivalence they have to be equivalent in terms and nutrients have to be equivalent in terms of processing they really have to be basically indistinguishable except for the transgenic trait the
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concept of g m o's being substantially equivalent to comes from the first bush administration when under heavy industry lobbying it was decided that g m o's would be generally regarded as safe and not need testing as would befit a novel food or drug product this designation was given without a single long term food safety study backing it dmoz are on our plates because of a single sentence of the f.d.a. policy would says that the agency is not aware of any information showing that humans are significantly different and because of this sentence they say no safety testing is necessary they say that monsanto could put a g.m. crop on your plate without even telling the f.d.a. . because they say months here to tell if the foods are say. you know your blood santo talking about blood santo the same covert.

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